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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Would You Care To Be Digitized?

Author: James Monahan

How is it to be digitized?

Gibberish speaking, digitize, as explained in the field of computer science, is the conversion of any continuously different source of input, i.e., lines in a drawing, or a signal of sound, into a series of hidden units embodied in a computer through binary digits 0 and 1.

As an example, the scanning of a drawing or a picture means digitizing it because of the conversion of lines and shading into combinations of 0s and 1s with the sensing of various light and dark intensities.

It is a matter of translating commonly through the use of analogue-to-digital converters. Sampling sounds and the conversion of text that is on paper into computer files text are also ways of digitization.

In simpler terms, to digitize is to turn an analog signal into a digital symbol of that signal. It is the translation of data into digital form. It is executed by reading an analog signal (often related to electrical)

A, and, at regular sequence, representing A's value at that point by a digital value. Each of these readings is known as a sample.

Examples of digitization

Digital cameras

A digital camera is an instrument of digitization. It's because it samples the original light that bounces off a thing to produce a digital image. This is one benefit given by digitization.

It produce devices that are very useful and fun to manipulate. Not only do digital cameras eliminate the need for a film, subsequently getting rid of the fuss of processing, the picture could also be seen immediately after the photographer takes it.

DVD's

One more common example of digitization is transferring VHS to DVD. This process involves accepting the signal of the video with the use of professional specialized hardware and writing to the hard drive of computers.

Digitization permits the content to be corrected on its color, sound and its remastering. Thus, the output video from a VHS, which is converted to a DVD, is a lot more top quality because of digitization.

Digital TV's

Images seen on television screens especially on digital TV's are also products of digitization. Digital TV's convey clearer, sharper images than those produced by common analog televisions.

Through digitizing the images they become more realistic looking with the help of a wide screen. Brands like Philips, Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Toshiba, Zenith and Sharp are currently profiting well from this innovation brought by digitization.

Cellular Phones

The new type of wireless communication from personal communication service phones is also created by digitization.

Transmission and reception has never been a breeze without digitizing. Digital bytes are what handle calls, which results in clearer and less-prone to interference signal. Nokia, Samsung, Panasonic, and Sanyo are presently the top players of this field brainchilded through digitizing.

With almost every information resorted to being digitized, soon enough personal, social, educational, and commercial goals will be much easier to to achieve.

Competition becomes much harsher but a lot friendlier to consumers that are ever thirsty for more innovative ways of communicating and retrieving information from various sources.

Devices have never been this so capable to multi-task without the help of digitization. With this technology, geographic boundaries are no longer considered as what limits communication and other interactive endeavors.

About the author: James Monahan is the owner and Senior Editor of DigitizeNet.com and writes expert articles about digitize .